Temporal Tantrum (Video Soundtrack)

Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music, after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate. This music is slightly updated from the original music in the video... and is a little basic and repetitive (works better under the video) ... possibly as a collaboration with somebody offering to add vox/real guitar over it? Send me a note if you are interested in adding to this, I can send you the GarageBand file.

ok now
a fantastic trippy treat for the senses. music and video are both very well done and draconically creative. little dragon takes after papa dragon it seems. wonderful work to both of you and kudos to surviving (and even enjoying!) this project together. a great success!

1-2-punch
Wow, first AND second! Dragonette really loves movie-making, especially dramatic stuff, so this was great fun for her... we got along quite nicely through this, and both learned a lot from each other... and apparently created something other people like too! Woohoo! Thank you for stopping in and leaving your thoughts! And Dragon and Dragonette (and Mrs. Dragon) are looking forward to meeting y'all in a couple weeks! :-)
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Drakonis

I wasn't expecting takers...
But somebody heard this and coaxed me to offer it up as a collab, so I have... not quite my usual style (I don't show my darkwave electronica side very much) but I am very happy you enjoyed it, even without kalimba, at least it has cymbal crashes. :-) OK, now it is YOUR turn to put together your motorcycle video!
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Drakonis

Yes, sir!
"How fun. This was pretty cool, Eduard. The video is super clear and your soundtrack nicely backs up the visuals. Must have been fun to work on together, and both of you, no doubt, learned a lot. Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed it.
Peace.
Paul"

Yay Paul!
I learned a LOT about syncing a soundtrack to video, and vice versa. It is a game fraught with details, right up my software-engineer-alley. My daughter is also very patient when doing this, although, I'll secretly admit she's already flinging clips a lot faster than I am in FCE, so I was getting cool tips from her on that.
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Drakonis

Shhh....
It's OK, Patrick, they're gone now... the video has stopped, and the voices are quiet. I was worried what kind of fits this would trigger in some people... I promise the next one will not have so many subliminal messages and dark foreshadowings. :-)
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Drakonis

Temporal Tantrum
Is great ...you know the structure based on giving the tense feel of a sudden
scene but no this is more than that ....its like a new look to the new sudden
life ..this is how I understood it ..the boomin bass withthe strings over just
like moaning female vocalists ...add this scarey tense air ...Bravo Papa Draki..
and Bravo Addis Draki ...for the video ...thnx alot for sharin this awesome
project !!!!

many stories in here...
My daughter and I had one sort of abstract theme to present, and shot a lot of video for it... the idea was to contrast "Pastoral natural beauty" against "Fast-paced urban culture"... we had LOTS of flowers and nature video too, but when Addison took over, she preferred to make it MOSTLY the gritty city, and a lot of disorientation of time that it causes, so the focus shifted a little.. so yes, you are picking up on the final theme. I am glad you enjoyed this strange direction from us!
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Drakonis

MARK!
this is probably the BEST news I have heard... go forth and create videos! I look forward to you making some stunning videos, putting mine to shame, so I have to work really hard to compete! I may have to call my daughter back again to help me get even close to your stuff! Maybe you will enlist RyRy's help too, then I won't have a chance. :-) Do it, it is great fun!
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Drakonis

Addy's everywhere...
Addison seems to be quite the creative young lady. Soon I will have to allow her to have her own account here on MJ, huh? :-) Anyway, I've seen some of your video work, and I'm dead... I really need to practice and read up on Final Cut to prepare for your entry to the ring... :-) I would LOVE to see more of your vids!
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Drakonis

Drak
I am really impressed by the video editing and the effects in the film. Of course the music fits just perfectly, and I know you posted the song here, but I am really floored by the video. Are all those effects (especially the slow-mo and reverse) in the editing suite or on the camera? You and your daughter should join DVXUser.com and enter one of the film festivals there. They are in the middle of QuestFest right now, but the next one will come up this fall I think.
Very impressive,
Stephen

ess effex
Hi Stephen, my video camera has some special effects built-in, but I never never use them. I *always* do sfx in the editing room (a LOT more flexibility there.) Some of the special effects were my ideas, some were my daughters, we had a lot of fun figuring out how to do some of them. None were particularly LucasFilm-amazing, but just interesting enough.

Uh oh... dvxuser.com? They have film festivals? Oooh, now THAT sounds interesting, I'll have to go look into that now! How cool would that be? Wonder if they have computer-animation categories? Thank you for the tip, I'll go do some researching! And thank you for watching and letting me know you enjoyed it all.

surprised...
and very humbled to get music compliments from you, Bob... it is funny, because I worked my behind off to get this music to have an ominous growl and bite, and in the end, thought that I just did so-so with the final piece... maybe I was just burned out, but couldn't hear it any more... it sounded OK to me, but I did like it coupled with the video. So to have found people interested in the music itself is exciting, thank you! And you know, with some Princely guitar and synthy bits, it could sound positively stunning! :-)

Really like this!
I'm glad you posted this, Eduard. As you already know, I think you've done a really good job here; I find your music more interesting than the original video game music. Really good work, and I hope this inspires you to try this technique with some other works.

such thoughtful commentary
Clark, I want to thank you personally for taking the time to ask about the original music, do the comparison, and suggest that I was able to rework it into something better. Yes, you specifically have now given me more confidence and I will be trying something like this again soon. And... I am anxiously awaiting your Clark-Scarlattification that you have promised to finish up soon! :-) Now THAT will be grand!
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Drakonis

Williams/Zimmer?
Nope, I'll never get there, but I have been taking notes, and some of my musical pieces actually were inspired by taking the movie first, then having to invent music to go along with it (like my "Andes Off!" to go with the condor video.) But this was the first time I tried to do some gritty industrial stuff. I completely agree with you that by itself, it is a little too monotonous, it needs somebody to play a lead or sing a lieder over it... that's why I posted it as a collab... know anybody, Ingo? :-)
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Drakonis

Well...
This is brillopads...how do you get the opaque effect with the door and the young woman seen through it....It is like a double exposure effect in standard or double 8 which I learned all about, then they stopped making it,doh....Great creepy scary music...I don't think it needs anything else as a background score....praps you should have two versions,the actual score and then a piece entitled 'inspired by thge movie Temporal Tantrum'.

Like those albums you know, you buy them, cos you know like, you think they are the soundtrack albums but hey they turn out to have just 1 title track from the movie and then the rest is like Bon Jovi or Prince or some other dweeb playing stuff that was never in the FILM ! ! May I please go and lie down now and maybe watch Temporal Tantrum again............

Sigh...
I would marry your sense of humor if I could... I have been suffering little eruptions of uncontrollable giggles all day now, after reading this wickedly funny post... thank you for completing my day!

I have avoided succumbing to the hodge-podge soundtrack CDs, except for two ("Metropolis", which actually HAS dweebs like Adam Ant and Billy Squier and Pat Benatar and Queen, and "Babylon-5" which has Christopher Franke of Tangerine-Dream-fame), and I actually really enjoy those, for some reason. I have listened to other people's CDs of Hans Zimmer (Batman) and Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings, and found that after starting to listen to them, I awoke 2 days later with a terrible headache, and no memory of what happened... sort of like the time I was introduced to the dangerous drink called a "Kamikaze", but that's a different story. Dunno, those just reinforced my belief that movie soundtrack music belongs in the movie. So I am going out on a limb here, making this a stand-alone dangly. I'm glad it is brillopads for you!

As for the double-exposure door effect, that's what it was, a carefully lined-up double-exposure... I did some of those with my ancient super-8 camera too!

see what happens
when I go out for the day? Drak posts a video and soundtrack! As I said in YouTube land, this is a very creative and fun project. Kudos to the dad and daughter for giving us a glimpse into the other side of Encinitas. I am waiting for the movie- this should be just the teasing trailer for a full scale story! Very well done, Schwans! :-)

Advertisement promo?
Maybe I could send this to the city of commerce, and see if they want to use it as a promo for this fine city? :-) It was fun to scout out the really seedy sections of town (it helps that I've lived here forever, and know all the back-alleys.)

And don't tempt my daughter, she is chomping at the bit to do full-length movies (she's working on a zombie film with friends now, and knows a manager at the local movie theater, may get it shown there during off-hours for her friends... I didn't know you could do that!)

And more Drak-Vids will be winging their way here soon! Thank you for your constant support and enthusiasm for my silliness!

Tantrumus Temporalis Maximus
I love that opening that gets us pulled right into the pot you're about to hatch. Almost a Jaws like line in the strings there for a few moments into the build. The orchestral bells work well as you've laid them into the intro and then you re-introduce them just after the one minute mark with the electric guitar. A wicked sense of anticipation or foreboding that you keep us tightly within the grip of through the use of your repeating rhythmic motif. Nice bent note on the electric too - never tried this myself in GB and it came off well.

I think that you've really carried this off terrifically and it can easily stand alone as is. (Great video too!)

Now before you throw a tantrum at the length of my post and the temporal expenditure to read it,

Very happy to hear from you that the music succeeds in giving that anticipatory dread feel, just what I was aiming for, to help intensify the imagery. And Doug, you can leave off your laconic tendencies, and be voluminously verbose with your critiques on my experiments any, any, any time! :-)

My daughter the entertainer
She enjoys acting in stage plays at school, I have NEVER had talent for that... I don't know where that came from! But we had a wonderful time together working on this, so we will likely try another one like this sometime. "Merci" for immersing yourself in our project, Marc, always good to hear from you.
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Drakonis

Repetition is our friend
and is used here to great effect. I listened to the music first, found it to be insistent and compelling. Then I watched the vid (excellently produced), and found the music to be dark and ominous and ... um ... foreboding is the word I'm looking for. So, you took a series of fairly innocuous scenes from daily life and made them seem sinister. I admit, I don't get it, but this art thing eludes me --- I got a D in Art Appreciation. Still, very impressive. Compliments to you both. I'd love to see some more.

Foreboding...
No "D" here, that is precisely what I was trying to get across with the music. As for Addison's choice and timing of scenes, we started with a theme/idea (making a movie that contrasted the beauty of nature against the grittiness of urban grunge), but as the editing progressed, more of nature (and thus the contrast) was removed, and the theme got altered a bit, more toward a feeling of just "being disoriented by urban life." Not a strong or direct message, it was mostly just a time to do a father/daughter project together from start-to-finish, play with special effects, and do some soundtrack alignment. With your interest in this and seeing more, I will definitely enlist her help in doing more twisty movies, maybe the "director" will be more strict about sticking to a less-abstract plot next time (smirk.) I'm also glad to know that the music stood well on its own for you. Thank you for listening and offering your thoughts, very helpful!
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Drakonis

O K J
Thank you for wandering down the dark path with us, and I'm glad it was a good journey. It was fun to work on this with her, and then to come up with something interesting was extra cool. Jampack orchestra violin/cello sections with my special sauce... nowhere near your kb talent, though!
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Drakonis

Another father/daughter duo...
Thank you for listening (and watching) and letting me know the music works on its own for you... right up your (dark) alley? You know, it could do with some Bud ornamentation, if you ever get out from under all the other collabs you have on your plate... that would be stunning!
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Drakonis

That makes two of us...
I thought you commented (Deja) too, Russ! Thank you for reveling in the tantrum with us! But if you change your mind, and feel it needs that little extra Russ-tic feel, ring me up and I'll ship you off some files to play with! ;-)
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Drakonis

Wow, that's fun
Some really good effects in there, liked the semipermeable door best I think but there are lots of others! Good film scoring too. Didn't hear the H Assistent at all in this ;-)

The kids are good at making videos nowadays. May I boast my brother's daughter's 'n friends' music video for Peter Gabriel song The Intruder It was a school project made by three 17/18 year olds. Hm, seems the sound has been taken away for copyright reasons! Too bad... Guess Peter and the boys were angry they didn't come up with quite as good a video themselves :-|

Where have you been?
Is it Summer vacation now for you? :-) Good to see you back... I'm glad you liked all the little effects we came up with, and also glad you don't hear that horribly mechanical "MIDI-like" musical style I try so hard to avoid. It was great fun to work on a project like this with my daughter... when will we see you post a family project too... hmmm? You have talent there too, I have heard! :-)
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Drakonis

The Heroes Assemble
...love the quiet tension that pulses through the piece, like a band of heroes beginning to finally assemble to begin a long and difficult battle against an adversary that has pushed them too far and too long.

It works quite well on its own. Now, the video actually makes the piece much more ominous and foreboding - like something cosmic and terrible is gathering where we know not or suspect less.

Fascinating, how the audio alone suggests the gathering of heroic forces, but the video suggests the opposite. Very, very well done.

high tension...
The ominous tension is exactly what I was aiming for, glad it came across. My daugher and I had a great time working on the music and the video, and I'm super-happy you liked them both. There seems to be a collaborative update to this music in the works, so stay tuned, and don't tell anyone, it's a secret!
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Drakonis

This rocks...
What more can I say? Reminds me of my favorite movie of all time...(one of them at least, lol) Terminator 2. I think your idea about adding vox and guitar is a good one. I think that I shall try it.

hehe... don't stay in the dark places
This is not a genre I ever tried writing before, but it was really fun and interesting to try. And my daughter really liked it. But the dark is not a place I stay in for very long, I prefer to bask in the sunlight of your music! :-)

Eduard's musical interests span a variety of musical genres, including, classical, world, ambient, electronica, and rock and blues. His venture "SchwanSongs" is where he writes and publishes his own musical compositions, usually classically-based m... [see more]